In surprise win, Donald Trump sweeps to victory in at least 29 states becoming the 45th president of the USA.

11/09/2016 - 08:22

JTA

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Donald Trump is the next U.S. president, having swept to victory in at least 29 states with 288 electoral votes and jolted a Jewish community made increasingly anxious as his rough-edged nativist rhetoric emboldened the far right and amplified a strain of anti-Semitic invective not heard in decades.

Rose Orbach, a 104 year-old New Yorker, plans to exert her right to vote in today’s election for one of the two presidential New Yorker candidates. This will be Orbach’s 16th presidential election she’s voting in, reported the New York Times.

Several Jewish groups have voiced their support for the Native American-led protest of an oil pipeline that would run near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota, with some rabbis traveling to the protest in solidarity.

(JTA) - Some women are calling out Ivanka Trump for standing by her father, even after he was caught on tape boasting about groping women. But others remain smitten by her — so infatuated, in fact, that they are going under the knife to look like her.

Less than a week before the presidential election, Donald Trump’s two top Israel advisers released a detailed plan that pledges assistance to Israel beyond current levels but stops short of pledging to kill the Iran nuclear deal.